Porsche Fageol on the grid for the C-Modified SCCA event a Westover, Massachusetts AFB, June 13, 1954. Photo by Robert Pauley.
Story by Pete Vack
From the VeloceToday Archives, September 2021
Born into a family of entrepreneurs and engineers, Louis J. Fageol (pronounced fadjl) would take over the family’s Twin Coach bus and tractor business as planned, but at the same time was hell bent for leather to satisfy his need for speed despite the wishes of his wife Caryl. Already famed for his speedboat victories, Fageol would push the envelope of all-wheel-drive race cars with his ultimate creation, the Fageol Porsche sports racer. In doing so, his life would literally hang by a thread.